linux-kernel - Re: stable-security kernel updates

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 06:40:47 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, lwn@....net
Subject: Re: stable-security kernel updates

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:14:13AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 16:33 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:27:46AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > 
> > > This means that missing CVE fixes are quite common with stable
> > > trees?
> > Until someone reports they are missing :-)
> 
> Or they are unfixed upstream (there are a good few of those).
> 
> Debian has a public list of all unembargoed kernel security issues that
> have CVEs (and a few that don't), with references to any upstream
> commits and fixed stable versions - but only for the stable branches
> that our stable releases follow.
> 
> The mapping of CVE IDs to commits may be useful to other stable
> maintainers, even if the rest isn't.
> 
> svn co svn://scm.alioth.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec/

Thanks for sharing this Ben, it can indeed be helpful sometimes and it's
well organized!

Willy